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...advantage. Most elementary schools in Garden City celebrate different national holidays, including Mexican Independence Day, the Laotian New Year and Vietnam's Tet. Last year a class at New York City's P.S. 189, which is roughly one-third Haitian, performed a class project about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the slave who freed Haiti from France. The exercise was consistent with both Haitian cultural traditions and the school's emphasis on maintaining harmony and diversity...
...settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...
...when you hit someone that way, woman or dog (backhand, I meant), it's as if you're deliberately minimizing her, pushing her away, treating her as if she were a slave...
...became more impassioned than I had seen him in a while. In no way, he shouted, is a dog like a slave. He had studied the master-slave relationship, and had its nuances down pat. Also, he has a dog. I've never had the privilege. I had to admit his line of reasoning was compelling...
...came to agree after a few minutes of argument that a dog was more servant than slave, though I maintained that compensation for this sort of service was arguable, built into the dog's existence qua dog, its naturally lower status...